I am chairperson and professor of American Studies, and professor
of History and courtesy professor of African and African American Studies
at the University of Kansas. I coedit, with Norman Yetman and Bill Graebner
AMERICAN STUDIES. I have authored BEFORE THE GHETTO and SEVEN DAYS A WEEK;
coedited PLAIN FOLK; coauthored THREE GENERATIONS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY
AMERICA and A PEOPLE AND A NATION.
Currently I am working on a book on the urban black male working
class during American industrialization, seeking to explain why blacks were
in the occupations they worked and the meaning of work in their lives. I am
lso exploring black identities: the various identities they had, how they
were constructed and meanings they had.
#20: From: Atsuko Hirata <atsukoh@hawaii.edu>
Hello. My name is Atsuko Hirata. I graduated from International
Chrisatian University with BA in American Studies and am now a MA student
in American Studies Dept. of University of Hawaii. My academic interest
is in Japanese Americans and Americans of other Asian groups, immigration
issues and race, ethnic relations. I am now writing an oral history of a
Japanese war bride who's married to a Nisei, second-generation Japanese
in Hawaii. It is my first attempt of writing an oral history, and I've
found it a great challenge.
I hope I can meet many people with the similar interest and exchange
precious information with them through this program.
#21: From: Loretta Czernis <LCZERNIS@arus.ubishops.ca>
1. Loretta Czernis
2. Bishop's University, College Street, Lennoxville, Quebec Canada
J1M 1Z7
3. Associate Professor of Sociology
I am writing a social history of silk production in the British
Empire. I am currently researching early attempts at silk production
in Virginia and Georgia. I am also interested in attempts made in
South Carolina although I have had no luck finding material on this.
I know that the Huguenot immigrants played a role and would
appreciate bibliographic references on their history in the Carolinas.
I am taking what I call a bifocal approach to the issues in order
to try to grasp the larger context: I am looking at the economic and
ideological implications of American colonial silk-making for the
British Government, as well as the day-to-day realities of silk
production on plantations and the implications of their work for
he future of the colonies.